RE: [Leica] [ OFF TOPIC ] Bitching against Kodak

[Andre Jean Quintal <megamax@abacom.com>]

At 08:36 -0800 02/03/99, Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote:
>Eric,
[ ... ] Print film accounts for somewhere around 90-95% of film
>sales.  So the K-14 MiniLabs were an attempt to improve the K-14 process and
>keep it alive.  Only time will tell if its successful.
>
>Peter K

	Can you ever imagine what it could be if Kodak
	invented a way to use the K-14 process for a
	new high performance color coupler print film ?

	OR: a way to use the K-14 machines for a new generation
	wide tolerance / ecological color neg C-42 process ?
	I read somewhere, about mainland China,
	that a simple employee had come up with a whole
	system to recycle photo chemicals, use much less
	water / chemicals, retain performance and help the environment:
	that would seem a "next step" for the megabuck C-41
	process... from a user's standpoint.

	As to profitability, Eastman Kodak stocks are my very
	last worry: they're probably safer than gold.

	I, like when a young teen, still get a kick from admiring those
	deep etched color reversal "things" on the reverse side
	of Kodachrome slides... especially the older K-II ones.
	If only my parents would have
	let me pursue my dream to become a professional photographer
	and graphic artist / offset color process specialist ...
	They strictly would hear nothing of it: m-a-j-o-r bummer :+(
	... while uncles became millionnaires in the securities
	printing markets (J.B. Deschamps, quite well known here).
	I still get a weird high whenever I smell printing inks:
	I'll just never manage to remain indifferent to printing
	processes, ... now looking into Hexachrome, as such,
	and its beautiful "color space".  [ Re-incarnation  ? ]

	Does anyone reading this know of Leica or photo related books
	printed (in whole or in part) with Hexachrome 6 color ?

	AJQ


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